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- What would be the effect of a merger of supermassive black holes?
What would be the effects of a merger of supermassive black holes? Such releases by far the greatest amount of energy of any event in our Universe as gravitational waves.
I suppose that a great deal of EM radiation is released, but I'm more interested in the gravitational waves. The resulting black hole may be accellerated so that it exits the galaxy at considerable velocity. But I'm mostly interested in the effect on nearby heavenly bodies. Such would have little effect on small objects but stars and planets would be fair game. I wonder whether a star or planet with resonant frequency close to that of the g waves would be destroyed, and if so at what range.
I suppose that a great deal of EM radiation is released, but I'm more interested in the gravitational waves. The resulting black hole may be accellerated so that it exits the galaxy at considerable velocity. But I'm mostly interested in the effect on nearby heavenly bodies. Such would have little effect on small objects but stars and planets would be fair game. I wonder whether a star or planet with resonant frequency close to that of the g waves would be destroyed, and if so at what range.